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Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has raised more than $4 million for her campaign against Democratic state Sen. Tarryl Clark, including an astonishing $1.7 million in the last quarter alone.

Bachmann received donations from more than 28,000 supporters since April 1, her campaign announced Wednesday. She had raised over $2.3 million earlier in the campaign, and the new money brings her total haul to more than $4.1 million.

Clark has also brought in huge sums for the race. She has raised more than $910,000 since April 1, her campaign said Wednesday. The money came from more than 24,000 donors, who contributed just $54 on average.

But with $2 million raised so far, Clark is still well behind Bachmann, who, like Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, can draw on her national profile and online presence to haul in big money.

Clark’s campaign called its donors a “grass-roots army,” and Bachmann told her Twitter followers that the campaign has “truly been a grass-roots effort.” It will be at least a week, though, before reports will show whether the majority of either candidate’s donors are actually voters in Minnesota’s 6th District.

Clark’s camp has used its money to put up the first TV ad of the campaign — a spot attacking Bachmann over comments she made about the BP oil spill. Bachmann called the $20 billion claims fund set up for relief “extorting money” and said the company's leadership should not be “chumps” for the federal government as it tries to clean up the spill.

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Michele Bachman ain't going anywhere. The misogynist Progressives in the media have tried everything to smear her name and she's still popular with her constituents and getting boatloads of cash from them.

This one is going to be good. it's obviously a heavily republican district or they would never have elected the lunatic Michelle. The BP thing may even turn some of the craziest but only time will tell.

Michele Bachman ain't going anywhere. The misogynist Progressives in the media have tried everything to smear her name and she's still popular with her constituents and getting boatloads of cash from them.

Michelle Bachmann is the only person who has "smeared" her name, solely by her idiotic statements.

Sure, sure, every Republican woman is an idiot... Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Nikki Haley. Don't the Dems have something else to level than their old and tired lines? The leftist fairies are scared to death of conservative women who actually have children instead of murdering them, because they might actually defend life, and the Demoncrats are satanists who enjoy slaughtering innocents. Keep up the good work, you libertine fools! You only motivate conservatives to continue to give to candidates like Michele Bachmann. You people are so insane, you don't even know it.

Sure, sure, every Republican woman is an idiot... Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Nikki Haley. Don't the Dems have something else to level than their old and tired lines? The leftist fairies are scared to death of conservative women who actually have children instead of murdering them, because they might actually defend life, and the Demoncrats are satanists who enjoy slaughtering innocents. Keep up the good work, you libertine fools! You only motivate conservatives to continue to give to candidates like Michele Bachmann. You people are so insane, you don't even know it.

President Obama , explain the BLACK PANTHER CASE that you had Eric Holder drop because the defendents were black and you let it be known that crimes from blacks against whites are not to be investigated from the Justice Department ,only crimes concerning white on black will be investigated. EXPLAIN THIS PLEASE!

bachman is an embarassment to the american people and to the people of minnesota. to all you conservatives your tombstone is being written by the bachmans palins glen beck limbaugh. u people have been rejected by america for years. dont u people understand. listen to what you people say on the radio and cable. why do u think you people are in the MINORITY!! oh yeaqh u guys are right and the rest of us are wrong. yeah were not the real america u people are

bachman is an embarassment to the american people and to the people of minnesota. to all you conservatives your tombstone is being written by the bachmans palins glen beck limbaugh. u people have been rejected by america for years. dont u people understand. listen to what you people say on the radio and cable. why do u think you people are in the MINORITY!! oh yeaqh u guys are right and the rest of us are wrong. yeah were not the real america u people are